Notes
1. ‘One of God's Spies’ is taken from Duncker's statement about her writing on the Contemporary Writers website, available at www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth33 (viewed 13 February 2007); ‘Queer Gothic’ is from Duncker's ‘Queer Gothic: Angela Carter and the Lost Narratives of Sexual Subversion’, Critical Survey 8/1, Spring 1996, pp. 58–68, reproduced in her Writing on the Wall: Selected Essays, London: Pandora, 2002, pp. 84–100. Throughout this essay page numbers for quotations from this collection will appear in brackets preceded by WW.
2. Patricia Duncker, The Deadly Space Between, London: Picador, 2002, p. 30. Throughout this essay page numbers for quotations from this work will appear in brackets preceded by DSB.
3. DSB 179.
4. The Acknowledgements state that there are ‘several deliberate quotations’ from Shelley's novel (DSB 248).
5. ‘Stalker’, in Patricia Duncker, Seven Tales of Sex and Death, London: Picador, 2003, pp. 1–50 (3). Throughout this essay page numbers for quotations from this story and from ‘Sophie Walters Shaw’ (pp. 51–87) will appear in brackets preceded by ST.
6. Gabriele Griffin, ‘The Dispersal of the Lesbian, or Re-Patriating the Lesbian in British Writing’, Journal of Lesbian Studies 4/2, 2000, pp. 65–80 (78).
7. Gabriele Griffin, ‘The Dispersal of the Lesbian, or Re-Patriating the Lesbian in British Writing’, Journal of Lesbian Studies 4/2, 2000, p. 77.
8. Gabriele Griffin, Heavenly Love? Lesbian Images in Twentieth-century Women's Writing, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993, p. 187.
9. DSB 187.